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Sounds easy, I know there are a million products that password protect/encrypt these however all these need software installed on the machine to encrypt/decrypt the data and many also need admin rights to run. This however is not an option. I work in IT at a department and we often lend out memory sticks to people travelling to other companies for taking documents with them to use on the 3rd party's equipment They will not have admin rights on the machines and cannot be logging helpdesk calls to have some decrpytion software installed before being able to do any work that day.

Therefore does anyone have any suggestions of how to do this. I wondered if some of the biometric memory sticks avaiable on the market would be suitable, but from what I can see they to need software installed to setup the fingertip recognition, and also to authenticate the fingertip when being accessed. The only way i can think of is a pen drive, or an external hard drive that has a number pad or something that needs a pin entered before windows can see the drive. This way the authentication/encrpytion is all hardware driven and not restricted by windows user rights. Anyone know if such a device exists or have any other suggestions?

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